Tag Archives: stock market
Would you dump the stocks in your retirement portfolio in exchange for greatly reduced risk?
The traditional investment advice is to buy stocks and hold them for the long run. The problem is that there have been many long periods of time when the stock market remained essentially flat or even negative. Most recently, stocks lost about -.95% a year over the ten year period ending in 2009. That doesn’t [...]
Too Much Advice!
What our client Jim wants to know is “What’s your take on the market?” Jim’s been watching from the sidelines for over a year now, with the majority of his long-term savings in a money market fund. He called a financial planner, concerned that he’d missed the rebound. Jim pointed out that the market had [...]
